The gap in one bag advice is what you do in the hours that are not sightseeing. Everything that fits shares one of three properties: it is flat, it is borrowed, or it needs nothing. Flat and light A deck of cards.…
Jeans are heavy, take a day to dry and are cold when damp. Technical trousers are warm and look like you are about to summit something. What actually works, in a city, in winter, out of one bag. Fabrics that work Wool…
Two weeks, one bag, mixed cities and a couple of days of walking on trails. My bag is fine on everything except shoes. A second pair costs me roughly a third of the bag. That is the difference between packing…
I travel with medication and a piece of medical equipment, and it is important to me that the bag stays with me in the cabin. Not because of the rules, because if it goes into the hold and the bag goes missing or gets…
I use 60ml squeeze bottles, press them until liquid reaches the neck, then cap them and put them in a zip bag. Two flights out of three I still land with shampoo through the bag and once through a shirt. I've tried the…
Two weeks around southern Vietnam with three shirts, so washing every night is the entire plan. I wash in the sink, wring it by hand, hang it on the shower rail, and at 7am the shoulders and the side seams are still…
Three weeks in October, starting in Lisbon and finishing in the Scottish Highlands, so I need a rain shell and one warm layer as well as normal clothes. I'm trying to decide between a single 40L that goes everywhere…
My pack is sold as 40x25x20cm which is exactly the limit for the airline I fly most, and empty it drops into the sizer fine. Packed it bulges at the front pocket and the top handle, and twice now I've had to squash it…
First proper carry on trip and my list has come down to two t shirts, one button down and a fleece for twelve days. Every time I look at it my brain says that's disgusting and I should add two more shirts. People who…